UPDATE: [International] The Individual and the Mass

full name / name of organization:

Nicola Rehling

contact email:

rehling@enl.auth.gr

THEME

The School of English of Aristotle University, Greece, in cooperationwith the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), invitesscholars to submit proposals for the 7th International HASEconference â€œThe Individual and the Massâ€ to be held in Thessaloniki from30th May to 1st June 2008.

This conference aims to address the cultural and linguistic implicationsof individual and group or mass identity, past and present, and tostimulate discussion on changing social bonds in the global environmentof late modernity.

Participants are invited to consider the following possible areas:â–º Individual and social subjectivitiesâ–º Topographies of the private and the publicâ–º Mass media(tions) in cultureâ–º Group psychologyâ–º Changing social bondsâ–º The role of religion in global re-alignmentsâ–º Cosmopolitanism and nationalismâ–º Homogeneity, heterogeneity, hegemonyâ–º The individual and the group in language learning

PLENARY SPEAKERS

MOIRA GATENSUniversity of Sydney

ARTHUR KROKERUniversity of Victoria

ERNESTO LACLAUUniversity of Essex

MANDY MERCKRoyal Holloway, University of London

STEVE REICHERUniversity of St. Andrewâ€™s

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Interested participants should submit abstracts for 20-minute papers of300-350 words either by airmail or email.

THE NEW DEADLINE for abstract submission is 5 February, 2008.

Selected papers will be published in a volume dedicated to the theme ofthe conference